Soon made the father of the youth accord;
His prudence half resisted, half obey’d,
And scorn kept still the guardians of the maid.
Cecilia never on the subject spoke,
She seem’d as one who from a dream awoke; 730
So all was peace, and soon the married pair
Fix’d with fair fortune in a mansion fair.
Five years had past, and what was Henry then?
The most repining of repenting men;
With a fond, teasing, anxious wife, afraid